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schwa · Joined: 18 Jan 2003 Location: Yap

I'm putting together a lesson on konglish for next week & wondered if anyone here could contribute any new additions. I've seen most of the old online lists. What I'm interested in are common, newer terms that would be relevant to my middleschoolers. For example, dica.

Thanks.

Ilsanman · Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Bucheon, Korea

Your schedule can be 타이트.

There is always 웰빙.

PeteJB · Joined: 06 Jul 2007

알바 (아르바이트)

Not Konglish, but still a loan word from another language.

nomad-ish · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:31 pm Post subject:

are you encouraging konglish? Shocked

cj1976 · Joined: 26 Oct 2005

I saw a travel phrasebook entirely in Konglish. It had the Korean meaning and the Konglish interpretation, but didn't bother with any actual English.

nomad-ish · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:38 pm Post subject:

^ i personally dislike konglish and try to stop my kids from using it (though my co-teachers don't make it easy).

afterall, besides using english to pass a test to get a raise at work, they presumably would also like to communicate with native speakers. konglish will usually get the general point across, but native speakers will look at them like wth

Smee · Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Location: Jeollanam-do

Well, it's actually a good idea for a lesson. I presume you're not only talking about Konglish, but words from English used regularly in Korean? (radio, camera, computer, etc.) It's a great idea and kids normally enjoy it. It also shows students how much vocabulary they already have. And, it allows the teacher to show students how to use the words properly. For example, turn on TV and you'll see "skin food," "treatment," "slide," just to name a few, but most don't know what these words actually mean or how to actually put them in a sentence.

So depending on the levels of your students, sit in front of TV for twenty minutes and just jot down all the stuff you hear.

Another huge offender is pop music. "Tell me," "one more time," "I'm so sorry," "I love you," "irony," " put your hands up," "happy ending tonight" (well, don't use that one), etc.

Sorry, didn't really answer your question . . . just dick around the Korean internet and you'll get tons (just think anything dealing with food, technology, musical instruments, beauty, or pop culture.) I came up with a list of over 400 middle-school-safe loan words in about an hour for one of my classes.